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Some hidden genes.

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John:

--- Quote ---I have one pair mating of LF blacks this year that is producing chicks that look black, blue and splash.  I should raise some up that appear blue and splash to see what they really are.  Even if one of these blacks were a blue they shouldn\'t produce splash.  If they both carry white they could produce white chicks, but the down on the chicks looks kind of grayish...their wing feathers are coming in white.
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Jean:
Looks like someone has some recessive whites in their flock.....

Mike Gilbert:
Yes, these look like recessive whites.   Blacks have been outshining the whites since the 1990\'s when white cockerels won champ large fowl at two consecutive national meets, so these may be on a par with the blacks.   They will produce all whites when mated among themselves, and about half whites when mated back to their black parents.

Guest:
Greeneggsnham, you\'ve probably already figured the obvious; what they\'re not saying, probably because they\'ve been breeding long enough to forget us newbies might not know, is that recessive whites hatch as smokey, sometimes nearly blue or lavender colored chicks. Both black parents are most surely split for recessive white, and will continue to pass this trait on if they, or their black chicks, are used to breed in your black flock.................... or sold to someone else as black Ameraucana.

Korfus Kluckers:
Looks like my LF Orpington chicks. Recessive whites hatch out a smokey gray color. I have even had them hatch out to look almost blue, but with a whitish under down.

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